iCity_2021: Towards liveable, intelligent and sustainable future cities (working title) |
Website | https://transfer.hft-stuttgart.de/pages/i_city_final_conference/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icity-2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 15, 2020 |
Submission deadline | October 15, 2020 |
iCity: Towards liveable, intelligent and sustainable future cities (Working Title)
Call for Papers for book publication
The vision of the iCity partnership is to ensure the city of the future is liveable, intelligent and sustainable (LIS). Such a city is increasingly connected through digital means, uses resources efficiently, implements intelligent mobility concepts and guarantees that its infrastructure is supplied with a high ratio of renewable energy via grid-bound infrastructure. Further to these technical aspects, approaches for intelligent cities are increasingly human-centred, integrative, fliexible, and thus placing the well-being of the inhabitants and a better quality of life at the centre of developments.
The essential part of "intelligence" consists not only in driving forward technical-ecological innovations, it also involves integrating social and economic aspects and developing user-centred solutions.
In order to meet these challenges, innovations must be developed through inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation with partners in the areas of research, business, administration, politics and civil society.
In particular, we are looking for contributions from within the iCity project and related research topics:
- Sustainable urban development and energetic neighbourhood concepts
- Open urban information platform and urban simulation
- Innovative data acquisition and surveying methodologies including crowd sourcing
- Urban acoustics
- Energy management, information and communication technologies including smart meter, IoT technologies and intelligent control systems like BMS or Smart Home
- Innovative buildings and technologies
- Sustainable mobility
- Finance and acceptance
We would like to encourage researchers at HFT Stuttgart as well as students to submit papers or contributions on their projects or thesis work related to the topics mentioned above.
The book will be the third publication in the HFT series by Springer Verlag. The other two previously published books are "Digitalen Wandel gestalten – Transdisziplinäre Ansätze aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft" (2019) and "Innovations for Metropolitan Areas – Intelligent Solutions for Mobility, Logistics and Infrastructure designed for Citizens" (2020).
Timeline
Potential authors are requested to submit a corresponding author and a draft title by 15.07.2020. This should serve as a basis for an initial feedback on the suitability for the book in principle. However, the editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts in special cases at any time.
15.10.20 Submission of the complete manuscript (in English), prepared in accordance with the APA guidelines (see next page). All manuscripts then will undergo a peer review procedure by the editors and external reviewers.
07.11.20 Authors receive initial feedback on manuscripts.
30.11.20 Submission of finalised contributions.
20.12.20 Authors receive feedback on finalised manuscripts.
15.01.21 Submission of final manuscripts
The publication of the book is planned for Q3/2021
Further questions on the book and manuscript design as well as the submission of the contribution should be directed to the email address: publication@hft-stuttgart.de.
Committees
Editors
- Prof. Dr. Volker Coors
- Dr. Dirk Pietruschka
- Prof. Dr. Berndt Zeitler
Editorial
- Christine Kraus (M4_LAB)
- Nina Ehresmann (iCity)
Publisher
- Springer Gabler
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to publication@hft-stuttgart.de
Notes on manuscript design
1.) The formal guidelines for the design of manuscripts are those of the APA: American Psychological Association (Ed.) (2010). Publication manual (6th ed.). Washington, DC: APA.
An APA tutorial can be found at: https://apastyle.apa.org/6th-edition-resources/basics-tutorial
2.) Contributions should not exceed 8 manuscript pages and must not be submitted for reprinting elsewhere or already published.
3.) Formal structure of contributions:
Page 1:
- English title
- Abstract (in English, approx. 10 lines)
- Key Words (in English language approx. 3 - 7)
Page 2 ff.:
- Text (max. 8 pages in English), Calibri, 12point, 1.5 line spacing literature
- Correspondence address: Name, Function / Organization / Company, Address, E-Mail
4.) Emphasis within the text is always in italics, which should be indicated in the manuscript by oblique printing or underlining.
5.) Illustrations (diagrams, drawings, sketches, photos) must be enclosed separately as reproducible artwork as a file (.tiff, .jpg, .pdf) (at least 300 dpi resolution) in black and white. Image rights and references must be obtained from the authors and submitted in a separate form by 30.11. Note placement and title in the manuscript. Tables are numbered separately, they are also submitted in a separate file (.docx, .xlsx, .tiff, .jpg, .pdf) and their desired placement clearly marked in the text.